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| Keywords: Bridgestone Painter - Pelike with Woman and Pair of Youths - Walters 4860 - Side A.jpg This pelike depicts a man and woman flanking a stele on the front The man stands in profile to the right and holds a staff in his right hand He wears a mantle and wreath The woman stands to the left and holds up a mirror in her right hand with her left arm bent at her side She wears a chiton mantle and sakkos Between them is a stele on a two step base with a fillet tied around it near the top On the back two mantled youths are depicted walking towards one another The mantle of the one on the left covers the back of his head The fillet wrapped around the stele suggests it marks a grave If so this would be one of the earliest red-figure vases with a scene at a grave It is at this time that grave stelae start to appear on white-ground lekythoi and a few red-figure vases It has been suggested that the graves in the Demosion Sema were the visual source for these depictions ca 480 470 BC Classical terracotta H 13 3/16 x Diam 9 13/16 in 33 5 x 25 cm ; Diam at mouth cm 16 7 ; Diam at foot cm 16 3 accession number 48 60 30726 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome 1897 cat no 211 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 place of origin Attica Greece Walters Art Museum license Ancient Greek red-figure pottery in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Bridgestone Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist update | ||||
